We all know winter is about the cold and the long evening showers. However, we all also long for the Sundays spent while being wrapped in a plaid, savoring a hot chocolate in front of the chimney. The crackling fire and the flames’ heat envelop us so generously.

The fire both represents a destructive power and regenerative force which man tried to control since the night of time. In Roman times, it was associated with Vulcan, master of the fire and the metallurgy.

This untamed element, which can produce havoc and destruction, may fascinates just as much as it scares. It is by its flame that we declare love, an image that has inspired artists for centuries.

In France, a legendary song by Johnny Halliday has made the stadiums tremble during concerts:

Turn the weather to storm
Go back to your natural state
Break through doors, barriers
Let the wolf out of its cage

Feel the wind raging
The blood pumping in our veins
Tune up the sound of guitars
And the noise of starting bikes
 
It'll just need a spark
Nothing, a move
It'll just need a spark
And a love note
Light the fire !
Light the fire
And make those devils in your eyes dance!

Back to the incandescent sweetness warming up the body during the long winter evenings, the burnt pine scent is perhaps the first memory that comes to our mind. We find this regressive smell in a wide selection of perfumes, including Burning Barbershop by D.S. & Durga. For this fragrance, the New York based brand drew its story from the fire that ravaged a barber shop in NYC: the notes of burnt wood and smoked wood mingle with the scent of mint, lemon and lavender. Like a bottle of carbonized pre-shave tonic.